How to download DVD images

Rob van Nieuwkerk robn at verdi.et.tudelft.nl
Fri Nov 5 15:46:04 UTC 2004


On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:56:03 +0100
Botond Kardos <Botond.Kardos at essnet.se> wrote:

Hi Botond,

> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:43, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:23:15AM +0100, Botond Kardos wrote:
> > > 	Hi,
> > > 	can you propose a program to download DVD images with? (FC3 is coming.
> > > :> ) Something which can handle huge files (unlike mget) and can resume
> > > after disconnects (unlike wget)?
> > > 	Thanks,
> > > 	Botond
> > > 
> > 
> > A wget update has been released for FC2 yesterday. This version is able
> > to download files >2Gb and can resume after disconnects ( option -c ).
> 
> 	Thanks, I didn't know of this "option -c" I'll try it. BTW wget in FC2
> is able to download huge files since a while. It just doesn't handle the

Don't know what you mean with "huge files" but the old wget in FC2 could
certainly *not* download >2GB files.

The wget update Karsten mentioned (wget-1.9.1-16.fc2) works fine
with >2GB files.

	greetings,
	Rob van Nieuwkerk




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